Fiction · 1914
Tik-Tok of Oz
Ann Soforth, the discontented young Queen of the tiny mountain kingdom of Oogaboo, marches off to conquer the Land of Oz with her entire army — sixteen officers and exactly one private soldier. Her invasion tangles together with the wind-up mechanical man Tik-Tok, the rainbow's daughter Polychrome, a shipwrecked girl named Betsy Bobbin, and the Shaggy Man's search for his long-lost brother, all of them drawn underground into the tunnels of the Nome Kingdom and the schemes of its bad-tempered ruler, Ruggedo.
Published in 1914, the book grew out of Baum's own stage musical The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, adapted from his earlier novel Ozma of Oz, and its wordplay-heavy chapter titles — "Ruggedo's Rage is Rash and Reckless," "The Long-Eared Hearer Learns by Listening" — are one of its signatures.
Contents
- Introductory
- Chapter One — Ann’s Army
- Chapter Two — Out of Oogaboo
- Chapter Three — Magic Mystifies the Marchers
- Chapter Four — Betsy Braves the Billows
- Chapter Five — The Roses Repulse the Refugees
- Chapter Six — Shaggy Seeks his Stray Brother
- Chapter Seven — Polychrome’s Pitiful Plight
- Chapter Eight — Tik-Tok Tackles a Tough Task
- Chapter Nine — Ruggedo’s Rage is Rash and Reckless
- Chapter Ten — A Terrible Tumble Through a Tube
- Chapter Eleven — The Famous Fellowship of Fairies
- Chapter Twelve — The Lovely Lady of Light
- Chapter Thirteen — The Jinjin’s Just Judgment
- Chapter Fourteen — The Long-Eared Hearer Learns by Listening
- Chapter Fifteen — The Dragon Defies Danger
- Chapter Sixteen — The Naughty Nome
- Chapter Seventeen — A Tragic Transformation
- Chapter Eighteen — A Clever Conquest
- Chapter Nineteen — King Kaliko
- Chapter Twenty — Quox Quietly Quits
- Chapter Twenty-One — A Bashful Brother
- Chapter Twenty-Two — Kindly Kisses
- Chapter Twenty-Three — Ruggedo Reforms
- Chapter Twenty-Four — Dorothy is Delighted
- Chapter Twenty-Five — The Land of Love
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Subjects
- Oz (Imaginary place) — Juvenile fiction
- Fantasy literature
- Good and evil — Juvenile fiction
- Gale, Dorothy (Fictitious character) — Juvenile fiction
- Brothers — Juvenile fiction
- Voyages and travels — Juvenile fiction
- Magic — Juvenile fiction
- Kings and rulers — Juvenile fiction
- Girls — Juvenile fiction
- Animals, Mythical — Juvenile fiction
- Princess Ozma (Fictitious character) — Juvenile fiction
- Dragons — Juvenile fiction
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About the author
1856–1919 · Victorian
L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) was born in Chittenango, New York, and tried many trades — actor, playwright, shopkeeper, newspaper editor in South Dakota, travelling salesman — before writing for children. Father Goose (1899) was a success; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), illustrated by W. W. Denslow, was a greater one, and he wrote thirteen more Oz books. He spent his last years in Hollywood.
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